[oXygen-user] scripted creation of MarkLogic data sources?

[Alex Jitianu]

Hi Jakob,

Are you referring to Data Sources or Connections? A data source contains 
the jar libraries while the connection contains the data needed to 
connect to a specific MarkLogic AppServer. Assuming that you have 
configured the MarkLogic related options once, what you can do is share 
the Oxygen options file with all other users that want the same level of 
access.

The options file is named something like oxyOptionsSa15.0.xml and 
depending on the platform the options folder is located as follows:
- Windows XP - [user-home-folder]\Application Data\com.oxygenxml
- Windows Vista/7 - [user-home-folder]\AppData\Roaming\com.oxygenxml
- Mac OS X - [user-home-folder]/Library/Preferences/com.oxygenxml
- Mac OS X - ~/Library/Preferences/com.oxygenxml
- Linux - [user-home-folder]/.com.oxygenxml

One thing to bear in mind is that the passwords are encrypted so they 
are not portable. All those that import the options file must manually 
insert the passwords in the connections.

Since the options file is an XML file you could also take a look and see 
how a MarkLogic data source and connection are saved and write an XQuery 
or XSLT to automatic add the connections so that you skip the manual 
insertion entirely.

Once you have an options file you can send them to all interested and 
they can use Options->Import Global Options... Another possible approach 
is to give them the options file as default options: 
http://oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/#topics/default-options.html

I'm also thinking about a possible Wizard that will let you select the 
AppServers for which you want to create connections. But I don't think 
this Wizard will be able to create Data Sources since the jars are not 
on the server (it would involve downloading them from the MarkLogic 
site). Do you find this kind of wizard to be useful and if yes do you 
have any suggestions about what interaction we should offer in this wizard?

Best regards,
Alex

On 13-Nov-13 4:55 PM, Jakob Fix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> right now we're creating our MarkLogic data sources manually, using 
> the UI. Is there a way to create them by modifying a configuration 
> file, or an API to send setup requests to?
>
> We're having a quite a lot of these data sources, but creating them by 
> hand gets cumbersome. And we really like the possibility to inspect 
> the database's contents via WebDAV from within OxygenXML.
>
> cheers,
> Jakob.
>
>
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